<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I too am against the further confusing of OA by adding extra colours.<div><br></div><div>The use of 'black' in this sense triggers associations in my mind with 'black market' - the 'under-the-counter' sharing of research when the sharer has no legal right to share. (Although many believe they have the moral right.) This is not OA in any real sense as OA is all about legal sharing. So 'black OA' is surely an oxymoron.</div><div><br></div><div>It is one of the ironies of the past 15 years that the technology that made OA possible also alleviated the pressure on researchers as many of them are able to get more easily 'black market' copies of articles that otherwise would be behind subscription pay-walls.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 26 Aug 2013, at 21:16, Heather Morrison wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Grassroots green authors vs. anti-access black publishers:<br><br>While I'm in total agreement on not expanding OA chromatography, some<br>thoughts on "black":<br><br>If the colour black is used at all, it should be reserved for the most<br>egregious cases of toll access. For example, publishers seeking to target<br>authors who share their works on their own websites, anyone seeking to<br>re-enclose works that are in the public domain, or anyone seeking to take<br>works out of access by the public altogether (censorship) would be a good<br>fit for black.<br><br>As for authors spontaneously providing free access beyond what their<br>publisher is currently comfortable with, I think something along the lines<br>of "grassroots green" or "wild green" makes a lot more sense than black.<br><br>I like the idea of platinum OA - free for both readers and authors - if OA<br>chromotography is expanded at all, for me thumbs up for platinum but<br>emphastic thumbs down for black.<br><br>Just my two bits ~<br><br>Heather Morrison<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Beall, Jeffrey<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu">Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Prof. Harnad:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Earlier when I highlighted the distinction between gold and platinum<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">open-access, you indicated (and your followers confirmed) that we<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">already<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">had enough colors of open access and that adding new ones would only<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">serve<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to confuse the matter. Now I see you are using the term "black open<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">access," a term that is new to me. ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thus, I think your usage gives license to everyone using the term<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">"platinum open-access," which is published research that is free to the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">reader and free to the author.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dear Jeffery,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am certainly not introducing the term "Black OA"!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The term was used in the Sigmetrics query by Bosman (and that's certainly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the first I'd heard of it!).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I re-used his term on the fly in replying to Boxman on that (one) occasion<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- as a place-holder for the category he had in mind (the same way I would<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">use "the Tuesday OA increase" on the fly if someone were posting a query<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">about a special blip that happened on that Tuesday).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">*All Green OA is free to the reader and free to the author*. Only (some)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Gold OA costs extra to the author (or the author's institution) -- and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">even<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that, not in the majority of cases (since the majority of Gold OA journals<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in DOAJ do not charge the author); hence* cost to the author was never a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">part of the definition of OA, either Green or Gold*.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"Platinum OA" hence continues to be a completely unnecessary and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gratuitously confusing and conflationary color-term. The category is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">already fully and clearly covered by Green OA (author self-archiving).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What Bosman meant by "Black OA" (a term I would certainly never use or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">recommend beyond that one local exchange) is a mashup of two distinct<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">potential conditions:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(B1) *Green OA provided before a publisher embargo has expired*. (This<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">arbitrary subcategory of Green OA certainly does not deserve a color-term<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of its own; it would cause endless, gratuitous confusion to call<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">self-archived Green OA articles "Black" OA until the publisher embargo<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">expired!)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(B2) An article made freely accessibly by *some unauthorized party --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i.e.,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">someone other than the author or the publisher*. This is simply 3rd party<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">bootleg (unless sanctioned by author and publish), and it does the OA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">movement no good whatsoever to tar it with this unnecessary and illegal<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">method of making research freely accessible to all. (We could also have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">had<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"disappearing-ink OA," for articles made accessible just long enough to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">read once, then they self-destruct. The colour options are limitless, if<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">one is bent on colorizing…)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(I have the greatest respect for Aaron Swartz's goals, but what he was<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">doing and advocating was, in part, piracy, not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">OA<<a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/828-The-JSTOR-downloading-caper-Open-Access-is-creator-give-away,-not-consumer-rip-off.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/828-The-JSTOR-downloading-caper-Open-Access-is-creator-give-away,-not-consumer-rip-off.html</a>>.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The quintessence of both the practical and the principled case for OA is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that *OA is *author give-away; it is not -- and does need to be --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">consumer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rip-off.<<a href="http://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=cr#fp=4bcdfc571fb2a4a7&q=harnad+give-away+rip-off">http://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=cr#fp=4bcdfc571fb2a4a7&q=harnad+give-away+rip-off</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">face validity of OA is that it is researchers making *their own<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">findings*accessible free for all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">*because they want to* -- not because someone else is doing it for them,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">let alone against their will.)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So my call (for what it's worth) is "no" to both "Platinum OA" and "Black<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">OA."<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(Ditto for "Diamond OA" and "Titanium OA," all of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">which<<a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/993-On-Diamond-OA,-Platinum-OA,-Titanium-OA,-and-Overlay-Journal-OA,-Again.html">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/993-On-Diamond-OA,-Platinum-OA,-Titanium-OA,-and-Overlay-Journal-OA,-Again.html</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">been mooted by some chromerasts: The purpose of coining the original OA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">color terms was to lexicalize the conceptually and strategically crucial<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">core distinction between author-provided and publisher-provided OA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(formerly BOAI-1 and BOAI-2). The rest of the orgy of colors and base<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">metals inspired by the chrononomic turn simply blur the crucial<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">distinctions that are needed for clear thinking, coherent strategy and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">progress in OA.)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best wishes,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Stevan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">*From:* <a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] *On<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Behalf Of *Stevan Harnad<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">*Sent:* Monday, August 26, 2013 5:45 AM<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">*To:* ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">*Cc:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">*Subject:* [GOAL] Re: OA Growth Monitoring Needs a Google Data-Mining<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Exemption<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On 2013-08-26, at 6:12 AM, "Bosman, J.M." (Utrech University Library)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">wrote (in SIGMETRICS):<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Do you know..****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1) How many of the freely available full text versions are “black OA”,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">i.e. shared against copyright? I know many examples of that in for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">instance<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ResearchGate, that is indexed by Google Scholar….<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">**<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">There are technically two kinds of "Black OA":<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(B1) Third-party piracy -- X posting the articles of Y. This is very<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">unlikely to be in Institutional Repositories.****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(B2) Authors self-archiving their own articles (Green OA), ignoring any<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">publisher embargo (most of Arxiv would have been B2 for years, until the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">publishers altered their policy and endorsed immediate, unembargoed<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Green<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">OA self-archiving).****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">We will soon have separate data for Green OA growth in UK institutional<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">repositories (mandated and unmandated).****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(Let others count the proportion of that Green OA that is B2: I'm more<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">interested in burying publishers' damaging and unjustified access<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">embargoes<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">than in praising, enforcing or reinforcing them!))****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But let it be noted that access provided after an embargo is Delayed<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Access (DA), not OA, which is immediate (and permanent). ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">In many if not most fields of research the critical growth period for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">new<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">research uptake is within the first year of publication (if not earlier,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">for preprints), although this may only be expressed and measurable as<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">citations somewhat later. This is the research progress that (some)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">publishers are trying to suppress in order to sustain their subscription<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">revenues at all costs (to research) by trying to embargo Green OA<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">self-archiving. ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(It is ironic also, and instructive, that in fields where the critical<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">growth period for new research uptake is longer than a year, publishers<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">are<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">trying to impose even longer embargoes on Green OA self-archiving.)****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The publishing tail, still trying to keep wagging the research dog, come<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">what may...****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2) To what extent [can] the growth of available OA versions be<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">explained<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">by increasing numbers of green OA versions of which the embargo period<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">has<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ended and to what extent to more general acceptance of OA by scholars?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">seems likely that the first effect will be more pronounced 6-24 months<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">after a period of exceptional growth of self-archiving in repositories<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">etc.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The empirical part of question 2 would be answered by the data that<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">answer<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">question 1. ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The rest seems circular: ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Yes, by definition, OA growth during embargoes will take place during<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">embargoes, not after, whereas OA growth after embargoes have elapsed<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">will<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">take place after embargoes have elapsed, not before. ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">And yes, whatever is actually being done is a sign of "acceptance" of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">doing it (by authors, I should think, since users looking for articles<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">are<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ready to accept whatever they can find, at least for Gratis OA<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(read-only),<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">if not Libre OA! (read-write).****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Stevan Harnad****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Sean Burns wrote:****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Although a harvester would be very nice, sampling theory and some<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">manual work does the trick too... [in my dissertation] I took the sample<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">May 2010 and collected bibliometric and other relevant data from Google<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Scholar in July 2010, July 2011, and July 2012.****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:58 AM* *Stevan Harnad wrote:****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Yes, hand-sampling can and does provide valuable information. ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But, as I said, for systematic ongoing monitoring of the global<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">time-course of OA growth across institutions, disciplines and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">nations, hand-sampling is excruciatingly difficult and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">time-consuming, holding research that could greatly benefit the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">worldwide<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">research community (as well as Google and Google Scholar) to a scale and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">pace that is more suitable for a doctoral dissertation.****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Historically speaking, if a few projects designed to monitor the ongoing<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">global growth and distribution of OA were allowed to do machine<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">data-mining<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in Google space, the growth rate of OA would be dramatically accelerated<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(and thereby also the size and functionality of Google Scholar<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">space).****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Otherwise, efforts to enrich Google Scholar space are relegated to the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">same fate as attempts to enrich vendors, spammers, napsters or<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">phishermen.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Stevan Harnad****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">This is a response to a query regarding Eric Archambault's report on<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">OA Growth by Adam G Dunn in Science Insider: "I find it difficult to<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">believe that the authors of the study managed to create a harvester<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that could identify and verify the pdfs linked to by Google Scholar<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">when Google Scholar actively blocks IP addresses when they identify<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">crawling."<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Our own "harvester" attempts to gather the all-important data on OA<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">growth were blocked by Google.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It is completely understandable and justifiable that Google shields<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">its increasingly vital global database and search mechanisms from the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">countless and incessant worldwide attempts at exploitation by<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">commercial interests, spammers, and malware that could bring Google to<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">its knees if not rigorously and relentlessly blocked.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But in the very special (and tiny) case of scientific research<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">articles it would not only be a great help to the worldwide research<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">community but to Google (and Google Scholar) itself if Google granted<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">special individual exemptions for important international studies like<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Eric Archambault's, which was commissioned by the European Union to<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">monitor the global growth rate of open access to research.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Google and Google Scholar would become all the richer as research<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">databases if data like Eric's (and our own) were not made so<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">excruciatingly difficult and time-consuming to gather by Google's<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">blanket blockage of automated data-mining.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(We do not trawl books, so Google's agreements with publishers are not<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">violated or at issue in any way. We just want to trawl for articles<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">whose metadata match the the metadata from Web of Science or SCOPUS<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and have been made freely accessible on the web; nor do we want their<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">full-texts: just to check whether they are there!)<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Stevan Harnad<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">****<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> ****<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">GOAL mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">GOAL mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>--<br>Dr. Heather Morrison<br>Assistant Professor<br>École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies<br>University of Ottawa<br><a href="http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html">http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html</a><br>Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca<br>ALA Accreditation site visit scheduled for 30 Sept-1 Oct 2013 /<br>Visite du comité externe pour l'accréditation par l'ALA est prévu le 30<br>sept-1 oct 2013<br>http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html<br>http://www.esi.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>GOAL mailing list<br>GOAL@eprints.org<br>http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>